"It is with The Children's Justice Campaign that we will support, protect and build resiliency to overcome the negative effects of toxic stress on a child's long term health."- Jennifer Trachtenberg MD, Pediatrican, Author, Co-founder Baby Bundle App, Assistant Clinical Professor at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

"The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive."- Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Clinical Psychologist and Award Winning Author,"The Conscious Parent"

"You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children."Anne Stevenson, Nationally Acclaimed Writer, Policy Analyst and Advisor

"Although research con?rms mothers make deliberately false allegations of sexual abuse less than 2% of the time, custody courts are giving the alleged sexual predator custody in 85% of these cases."-Barry Goldstein, Author and DV Expert "Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody"

"Contested custody cases are overwhelmingly domestic violence cases involving the worst abusers, ones who believe their partner has no right to leave, but standard court practice is to pressure victims to cooperate with their batterers instead of requiring abusers to stop their coercive tactics in order to have a relationship with their children."-Barry Goldstein, Author and DV Expert "The Quincy Solution"

"A child's exposure to certain traumas, including domestic violence, sexual abuse, or being separated from a primary attachment parent, results in children suffering more illnesses and injuries as children, later as adults, and are expected to have a shortened life span."-The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAdverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE)

"The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Gender Bias Task Force found that 94% of fathers who actively sought custody received sole or joint custody, regardless of whether there was a history of abuse."Joan Meier, Founder and Executive Director of DV LEAP and Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School.

"We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are."- Lundy Bancroft, domestic violence and child custody expert, and Author of "Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" and "The Batterer as Parent."

"You'd think the overwhelming amount of money spent on the fallout of adverse childhood experiences would have inspired the medical community, the public health community, and federal, state and local governments to integrate this knowledge and fund programs that have been proven to prevent ACEs (adverse childhood experiences). But adoption of concepts from the ACE Study and the brain research has been remarkably slow and uneven."- Jane Ellen Stevens, Founder/editor ACEs Connection Network

"Contested custody cases are overwhelmingly domestic violence cases involving the worst abusers, ones who believe their partner has no right to leave, but standard court practice is to pressure victims to cooperate with their batterers instead of requiring abusers to stop their coercive tactics in order to have a relationship with their children."-Barry Goldstein, Author and DV Expert "The Quincy Solution"

"Without money, size, maturity or the right to vote, children are at the mercy of an American legal system that fails to value their well-being and rights. It is inhumane to subject children to harm at all, much less in the name of justice, yet the very systems that are supposed to protect children too often enable their suffering instead.-Wendy Murphy, former prosecutor, lawyer, professor, author, Director, Women's and Children'sAdvocacy Project Center for Law and Social Responsibility New England Law|Boston

"We need a campaign in the courts to develop and strengthen children's human and constitutional rights so that our legal system consistently provides appropriate protection to those who cannot protect themselves."-Wendy Murphy, former prosecutor, lawyer, professor, author, Director, Women's and Children'sAdvocacy Project Center for Law and Social Responsibility New England Law|Boston

"The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur."-Garland Waller, Award-Winning Documentary Producer, Director of the TV Graduate Program at Boston University's College of Communication

"Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating."-Lundy Bancroft

"The Right To Be Protected. It's time to name it, talk about it, and stop this social injustice: judges are silencing sexually/physically abused and at risk children by handing them over to dangerous parents in child custody and access cases. These invisible children need to be seen, heard and protected!"-Eileen King, founder of Child Justice, Inc.

"What is happening to our children, as a result of a broken Family Court system, is the biggest civil rights tragedy since the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. Since children have no voice in politics, it is incumbent upon healthy parents to speak for them and change this broken system."-Hera McLeod, Author of the blog www.cappuccinoqueen.com, and Children's Rights Advocate. Mother of murdered 15 month old son Prince, who was drowned to death on his fourth court ordered unsupervised visit with his abusive father.

"There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world."-Barry Nolan, Multi-Emmy Award-Winning Television Journalist who has reported stories from around the world.